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KYOTO DAY 1

草喰 なかひがし(Soujiki Nakahigashi)
Soujiki literally means “eating glass”. The owner chef spends 2,3 hours every morning picking wild grass and turnｓ them into wonderful cuisine. My friend told me this is the kind of food that Japanese eat in the past. Somehow I have two serious friends who carried a wild grass dictionary with them and studied it while they ate….Reservation is nearly impossible. My friend’s mom helped to call one month in advance, on the first day of the month starting from 8am…and apparently she kept phoning non-stop for 30 mins until finally she got through the line. It is that crazy.

【おつけもの】
大根、赤かぶ、黄人参、菜の花、昆布
【ご飯】
おくどさんで炊いたご飯
堀川ごぼうのひげ根と人参のごま和え
ねぎみそ
めざしの丸干し
Pickles. Rice.
Burdock root and carrot with sesame.
Leek and miso.
Mezashi(salted dried sardine).
【水菓子】
上賀茂の朝どりいちご
ぶんたん
きなこアイス
Fresh picked strawberry, buntan, and soybean flour.
Lunch course is 5000yen. All the veggy and the grass and the flowers have a kind of natural bitterness, but it is not unpleasant. In fact the bitterness is the good part.

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In the past you have get up first thing in the morning and go to the mountain and pick the grass yourself, but nowadays you just have to pick up the phone and book…^^;;;(though in this case booking is not easy too…)

These all look wonderful! Ginkaku-ji looks beautiful~ Just as I thought you seems to have the restrain to focus on traditional Japanese food and not try any of the french there…the last dessert one..haha! ^^;; Is it touristy there unless you know where to reserve?

The grass course menu is so beautiful, how they elevate peasant survival food to delicacies~

Oh definitely should focus on washoku in Kyoto~~ French is better in Tokyo I think. Kyoto is of course touristy. Not only foreigners but also Japanese tourists. The friend who drove us around for one day actually comes from Kyoto but she hasn’t been to any of the restaurants we booked. ^^;;;